Work Overview

Rushing Spirit
Breathexplores the
Korean Sanjo concept of scattered melodies that gradually accrue
tension, in my case, to express the Judeo-Christian idea of the
Holy Spirit presence as being something that rushes into being.
The work is structured as a series of accruing segments. It
emerges from breath-like stillness of fluctuations of taegŭm breath and emergent percussive colours into
fast, wild ranging register colour and upper emergent membrane
excitations of the flute together with percussive barrages at the
climax. The final segment keeps this momentum with high
long-breath phrases on taegŭm, shrill and
fluctuating, over metal and skin percussion punctuations to
recapitulate the quieter low breathed opening as a more tension
filled, ecstatic atmosphere coda to the work. Symbols of
Judeo-Christianity open and permeate the work through whispered
sprechstimme utterances as transcriptions of glossolalia-speaking
in tongues-that gradually merge with the Korean words of joy and
inner spirit rhythm connection in "chŭlgyŏyo, möt."